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Dear All, I am having some trouble in automating a window. Everything is fine is I may use the couple WinActivate/WinWaitActive but it is not working if the window is minimized. I need to click a button and I tried the following: I declared in an object a reference like this: self.autoit=win32com.client.Dispatch('AutoItX3.Control') self.autoit.AutoItSetOption('WinTitleMatchMode',2) self.autoit.AutoItSetOption("WinDetectHiddenText", 1) And a t a certain point I press the Exit button self.autoit.ControlClick('Dome','','[CLASSNN:WindowsForms10.BUTTON.app.0.378734a15]') self.autoit.ControlClick('Dome','','[NAME:ButtonExit]') self.autoit.ControlClick('Dome','','[CLASS:WindowsForms10.BUTTON.app.0.378734a; INSTANCE:15]') Now, If the window is active and screen is not locked all is ok.But if window is minimized and/or screen is locked the command does not have any effect on the window. As far as I know controlclick should work also on these situations. Am I wrong? Thanks a lot for your help Nicola

Dear All, I have a UI where a users has got two buttons. one "Play" and one "Pause". When I hit "Play" the program runs Func A, but then if I hit "Pause" the function associated to"Pause" is not run until the Func "Play" is not completed and this is exactly what I don't want as I want to stop the flow and being able to keep it going again if I press "Play" again. Do you have any idea on how to do that? At the moment (not working) I have something like this: $start=GUICtrlCreateButton ( "Play", 20, 250, 70, 25) GUICtrlSetOnEvent($start, "StartButton") $stop=GUICtrlCreateButton ( "Pause", 100, -1, 70, 25) GUICtrlSetOnEvent($stop, "StopButton") Func StartButton() for $i=1 to 10 ; do something sleep (1000) next EndFunc Func StopButton() ; Pause the script EndFunc Thanks a lot for your help Nicola

You're right, I didn't post any code.. The array is declared Global $Sequence[5][5] Checkboxes are created with something like this for $i=0 to 4 step 1 $FilterLabel="Filter #" & $i GUICtrlCreateLabel($FilterLabel,5,$i*30+63) $Sequence[$i][0]=GUICtrlCreateCheckbox("",50,$i*30+60,20,20) Next This is the function where I get the error Func ReadExposureMatrix () for $FilterNo=0 to 4 Step 1 if (GUICtrlRead($Sequence[$FilterNo][0])==$GUI_CHECKED) Then $ExposureMatrix[$FilterNo][0]=1 Else $ExposureMatrix[$FilterNo][0]=0 EndIf $ExposureMatrix[$FilterNo][1]=GUICtrlRead ( $Sequence[$FilterNo][1] )*1000 $ExposureMatrix[$FilterNo][2]=GUICtrlRead ( $Sequence[$FilterNo][2] ) $ExposureMatrix[$FilterNo][3]=GUICtrlRead ( $Sequence[$FilterNo][3] ) $ExposureMatrix[$FilterNo][4]=GUICtrlRead ( $Sequence[$FilterNo][4] ) Next EndFunc In particular the error is pointing at this line if (GUICtrlRead($Sequence[$FilterNo][0])==$GUI_CHECKED) Then Thanks once again

Hello Everyone, I've got a GUI with some checkboxes and a button that executes a procedure when it's pressed. When the procedure is completed, if i hit again the button the GUI crashes saying that an array is not initialized. The array is global and it was filled with the values I got from the GUI on the first run, and because I don't clear it I would expect to have the same content on the second one, so I'm puzzled. Do you have any idea on why this happens? How do work this around? Thanks a lot! Nicola

Dear All, to get the handle of the Canon EOS Utility (software to remotely control a Canon EOS DSLR camera via USB cable) I use this command: $EOS_Handle = WinGetHandle("[CLASS:WindowsForms10.window.8.app.0.3553390]", "") Well, this works on my PC, but not on others. Can anyone tell me how to address correctly this window? I can't use its title as the title changes depending on the camera, so I need something general. Otherwise, Is there a general method I can use to retrieve the correct handle whatever Canon EOS Utility I have installed? thanks a lot Nicola

Hi, just to let you know that I browsed the forum a little bit digging for info and I tried also this: Func Esposizione ($qsi,$tempo,$filtro,$nomefile) Dim $Pronto $qsi.Expose ($tempo,1,$filtro) $Pronto=False Do $Pronto=$qsi.ImageReady if @error Then ConsoleWrite ( "Bad Luck!" & chr(13)) Exit EndIf Until $Pronto $qsi.SaveImage ("c:\\tmp\\" & $nomefile) ConsoleWrite ( "Fine cattura frame" & chr(13)) EndFunc Despite the @error the $Pronto=$qsi.ImageReady always hangs the program and the consolewrite inside the "@error if statement" is never reached.

Thank you for your reply. I did try the timer code as you wrote and I got the same error The requested action with this object has failed at the line If $qsi.ImageReady Then What is a COM error handler? May you point me out to the related documentation? Thank you very much! Nicola

I get the following error: C:\Users\betelgeuse\Documents\QSIDitheringConPHD.au3 (38) : ==> The requested action with this object has failed.: WEnd WEnd^ ERROR Line 38 is "WEnd"

Dear All, I have written this function: Func Esposizione ($qsi,$tempo,$filtro,$nomefile) If ($qsi.Expose ($tempo,1,$filtro)) Then ConsoleWrite ( "Inizio cattura frame" & chr(13)) while (Not $qsi.ImageReady) WEnd $qsi.SaveImage ("c:\\tmp\\" & $nomefile) ConsoleWrite ( "Fine cattura frame" & chr(13)) EndIf EndFunc The script, sometimes, hangs with the error at the "Wend" statement. Unfortunately is "sometimes" and not "always" and that makes me difficult to debug this. I tried to put a sleep() inside the while loop, with different timings, but it didn't help. $qsi.ImageReady is a call to a boolean COM property. Thanks to everyone who can help me in sort this out Best regards, Nicola

Yes, it does work and it works with my window! Now, this is nice, but I don't understand how you reached this, I never use the WinAPI so I don't know how to use it. Can you point me out to some documentation regarding this API? I'm also relatively new to Windows...

yes it does work, but what's the difference between my application "PHD" and your window "PHD"? I don't understand... PS: I tried also with other windows like firefox, same thing, I don't get the event.

Yes, this is the intended purpose of this piece of code. It does not work anywhere within the PHD window or outside of it. Edit: I just tried to print out the GUIGetMsg() and it always returns 0. I guess this means that it never gets for any reason any event...this is weird. It's my first time to get events, but the code to me seems treally simple that I don't know where I could have mistaken. Func StoreCoordinate() WinActivate("PHD") WinWaitActive("PHD") While 1 $msg=GUIGetMsg() ConsoleWrite($msg & @CRLF) If $msg = $GUI_EVENT_PRIMARYDOWN Then $Stella = MouseGetPos() ConsoleWrite($Stella[0] & " " & $Stella[1] & @CRLF) Return $Stella EndIf WEnd EndFunc

No it does not work also in the way you rewrote it. This is the full code I tried: #include <GUIConstantsEx.au3> Func StoreCoordinate() WinActivate("PHD") WinWaitActive("PHD") While 1 If GUIGetMsg() = $GUI_EVENT_PRIMARYDOWN Then $Stella = MouseGetPos() ConsoleWrite($Stella[0] & " " & $Stella[1] & @CRLF) Return $Stella EndIf WEnd EndFunc AutoItSetOption("WinTitleMatchMode",2) AutoItSetOption ( "MouseCoordMode" , 0) $Stella=StoreCoordinate()

Hello All, I've got the following function: Func StoreCoordinate() WinActivate("PPP") WinWaitActive("PPP") while 1 $msg=GUIGetMsg () if $msg<>0 Then if $msg==$GUI_EVENT_PRIMARYDOWN Then $Stella=MouseGetPos() ConsoleWrite($Stella[0]& " " & $Stella[1] & chr(13)) ExitLoop EndIf EndIf WEnd Return $Stella EndFunc This function never ends despite I clicked with the mouse many times. Do you know why the loop never ends? Thanks for the help Nicola

Dear All, I'd like to get the frames from a video application to do some processing on them, is it possible? How? thanks a lot for your help Nicola

Dear All, just wanted to let you know that I found the solution for this issue. I'd like to share it with you just in case in future someone comes into the same question. Basically the EXE file that I own with ActiveX controls needs to be run as it act like a server. Once the executable is run, the object will become available as a COM object so it will be available the same way as any COM object. Best regards Nicola

Hello All, I would like to use an EXE file which contain an ActiveX object with its related properties/methods. I know how to use DLL and COM with AutoIT, but this seems to be somewhat (AFAIK) different because: - with DLL, for instance , you can specify the path to the filename, and then use the functions inside, but can not instantiate objects - with COM you can instantiate object using properties/methods, but the COM object is registered at installation time into windows and you can not specify a path to an exe file where the COM object is. So, what can I do? Thanks in advance for your help! Best regards Nicola

Dear All, I have source code to fill up a listview upon reading a file. If the User opens another file, the system has to erase the previous listview and generate a new one. How can I do that? Thank you and best regards Nicola

Do you mean there is no rule of thumb on which one to use, without actually trying them out?

It works! Thanks a lot! By the way, reading the documentation it says: "By default, AutoIt uses the 'stdcall' calling method. To use the 'cdecl' method place ':cdecl' after the return type." What does cdecl mean? Which is the difference between the two calling methods and why a C compiled function needs to use cdecl? Thanks again! Nicola

Juvigy: getting rid of the double slashes does not solve the issue trancexx: the asterisk is needed AFAIK because you need to specify that is a pointer to a string, I used this as reference: http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/functions/DllCall.htm However, I tried without the asterisk and it's not working either.

Dear All, I wrote a C function in a DLL: int GetElbrusStatus(char *statuspath) I already tested the code within C and it's working. Then I created a small script to test it with AutoIT: $libreria="C:\\tmp\\libAstroDirector.dll" if FileExists($libreria) Then MsgBox(0,"Risultato","DLL found") $dll = DllOpen($libreria) if $dll<>-1 Then MsgBox(0,"Risultato","DLL Opened") $result = DllCall($dll, "int", "GetElbrusStatus", "str*","D:\\Elbrus\\Images\\elbrus.sta") MsgBox(0,"Risultato",@error) DllClose($dll) Else MsgBox(0,"Risultato","Unable to open DLL") EndIf Else MsgBox(0,"Risultato","DLL NOT found") EndIf Exit The pop up messages "DLL found" and "DLL Opened" do pop up, but after that nothing happens, I can't even get the message with the @error variable printed. What's the problem in your opinion? How can I solve this? Thanks very much for your help Best regards Nicola

Thanks for replying, I found the chapter you refer to, I went through FAQ and Tutorials, but I had overlooked this.

Dear All, I need to open a window and act on its controls. Everything is working as long as I hard code the window title. The problem is that this window opens with a different title depending on the device is connected to, so I can not hard code its title. Is there a way I can still use this AutoIT so that I can access the controls independently from the title? Thanks a lot Best regards, Nicola

Dear All, is it possible to work with keyboard and mouse while an autoit script is running? thanks Nicola